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SkullFire

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I know that the GP2X has Linux on it, and I was wondering if the GP2X can run programs and files made for linux itself. Would I need source or could it be compiled? If anyone could help, this would be nice!

-SkullFire :ph34r:
 
SkullFire posted on Mar 14 2006 at 03:20 PM said:
I know that the GP2X has Linux on it, and I was wondering if the GP2X can run programs and files made for linux itself. Would I need source or could it be compiled? If anyone could help, this would be nice!

-SkullFire :ph34r:

Compiling for the GP2X is not hard if you have the source.

Hell, if you can already go into the console with a keyboard on the GP2X, you could theoretically use the GCC for it and just compile it. However, since the hardware is vastly different it could not work if it has X86 assembly, or uses things that are meant for a modern Linux build/Windows.

Short answer, not directly, long answer, if you have the time to change everything so that it is meant for the GP2X, yes.

EDIT: Random comment, but the person that made the picture on your sig is not a Japanese person. =)
 
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Hmm... I think I understand what your saying... but ARMs? What are those? I know what X-Window is, I've used linux enough to know what that means!

Mebee I should post a topic asking for help with linux...

-SkullFire :ph34r:

EDIT: And I didn't know that the d00d who wrote in japanese wasn't japanese.
 
ARM is an architecture, much like x86, which is probably what your computer is running on now. Different architectures have different sets of instructions that tell them to do different things. The GP2X runs on an ARM architecture, and should therefore be able to run any program that runs on an ARM architecture, provided it has no dependencies that the GP2X cannot meet.

There are other issues too, like screen size and controls, but I'm not going to go into that.
 
SkullFire posted on Mar 15 2006 at 02:33 PM said:
EDIT: And I didn't know that the d00d who wrote in japanese wasn't japanese.
It's just that it's a very direct translation, kind of like "Spanglish"... it doesn't have anywhere near the same connotation in both languages. I can write in Japanese too... doesn't mean I know grammar too well ;)
 
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Oh, well that's a bit off topic though, anyone know how I can program for this linux on the GP2x? I'm interested, and I'm ready to learn ^_^!

-SkullFire :ph34r:
 
Moved to the help section, as I don't believe it was a cool idea or a wish ... though I could be wrong.

</trying to be more helpful>
 
Oh, thanks TelcoLou! Sorry about that!

So, I found some DEV kits at the GP2x dev site, but I have yet to try them... does anyone have any suggestions for kits to try?

Thanks
 
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